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The EU has ambitious plans for more efficient energy usage across the continent that integrates renewable sources into a secure power grid that emits far less CO2.  These goals, if they are to be reached by 2020, are heavily dependent on a successful smart grid deployment.

The smart grid will bring about a number of improvements to the power industry including the ability to include renewable sources.  Consumers will have a far better handle on how they are using energy through the use of a smart meter or display unit and utilities will have much more visibility into the level of supply and demand with the networked smart grid architecture.

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Telvent (NASDAQ: TLVT), the IT company for a sustainable and secure world, announced today that its electrical distribution geographic information system (GIS) software is available to enhance engineering curriculums at higher education intuitions. With an increased emphasis on energy efficiency and smart grid developments, the energy industry is in critical need of highly trained and educated workforce to meet these needs. Providing engineering students and educators with the industry’s latest GIS technology tools allows them to gain better understanding of how to solve real-world problems.

A commercial video from Capgemini about their Smart Meter Project with Hydro One

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BB11F48qz8

Enerway.se will be present at the Smart Metering Conference on the 10th and 11th of March in Copenhagen. The mission is to get video interviews with visitors, companies and speakers and to publish the interviews on this website and at Youtube.

If you are interested in the video interviews and would like to be scheduled for an interview, please contact us as soon as possible.
We want you to tell us about your company, your products and how they could make the grid smarter.
Link to contact form

Haven’t been registered to the event just yet?
Here’s some links for more information about the event:

Link to the Conference brochure.
Link to copenhagen2010.smartmetering.eu!

A report by Frost and Sullivan concludes that the introduction of smart meters will create a revolution in the South African power market. Analyst Ross Bruton says the energy crisis is driving the market and obliges Eskom to reduce the electricity demand. Eskom is Africa?s largest producer of electricity and is among the top seven utilities in the world in terms of generation capacity and among the top nine in terms of sales.

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Greenplum Software, the pioneer of Enterprise Data Cloud solutions for large scale data warehousing and analysis, announced that it had signed a partnership with Silver Spring Networks, a pioneer in the smart grid arena.  Greenplum uses “MAD Skills” analytics to mine useful information from mountains of data that enterprises compile in their day to day operations.

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The New South Wales Solar Bonus Scheme will require consumers to install Gross Feed-in meters in order to pass along solar energy directly into the grid. Three NSW energy wholesalers – Energy Australia, Country Energy and Integral – have developed different approaches to the mandate.

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The British Electrotechnical and Allied Manufacturers Association (BEAMA) welcomes the Government’s plans for installing smart meters in UK homes and small businesses.  Dr. Howard Porter, chief operating officer (COO) of BEAMA, made remarks on the subject at the group’s recent Smart Electricity Systems Conference.

“It is particularly refreshing to see the clarity of thinking presented in the ‘Smarter Grids: The Opportunity’ document,” said Porter, referring to the Government’s roadmap to a sustainable future.  “The paper provides a roadmap to 2050 with increased future interaction between the distribution network and energy users.”

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Xcel Energy has asked the Colorado PUC for permission to initiate a pilot pricing program for Boulder’s SmartGridCity to test customer acceptance of three different electricity pricing options. If approved by the PUC, the pilot would be launched in April of this year.

Take a look at this Home Dashboard for Energy management from Intel. Intel will release a product like the one in this presentation in 2010 according to www.webpronews.com.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXAqGC4Myh0